Release Manager

We are seeking an experienced Release Manager to lead the planning, coordination, and execution of releases across a complex enterprise application landscape. This role ensures business and technology changes are delivered in a controlled, timely, and low-risk manner across integrated platforms and stakeholder groups. The ideal candidate brings hands-on experience with Oracle systems and related enterprise applications such as UKG, Passport, and Vertex, and partners closely with business owners, QA, Compliance, IT product teams, and vendor partners to successfully deliver releases and continuously improve scalable release processes. Key Responsibilities - Own the end-to-end release lifecycle, including planning, coordinating and communicating with business, IT, and program teams, effectively managing deployments across all environments, and overseeing post-release validation. - Partner with business and technical stakeholders to define release scope, timelines, risks, dependencies, and acceptance criteria. - Define and maintain the release management framework, enterprise release calendar, policies, controls, and stakeholder communications. - Proactively identify, document, and manage cross-application, data, and infrastructure dependencies, ensuring integration readiness prior to deployment. - Own release intake, prioritization, and sequencing across competing initiatives, balancing business urgency, technical risk, and delivery capacity. - Collaborate with business owners, QA, security, DevOps, platform teams, and support teams to align release activities across integrated systems. - Validate business readiness for releases, including training completion, support preparedness, communications, and operational procedures. - Coordinate with external vendors and internal stakeholders on release roadmaps, upgrade schedules, patches, and hotfixes. - Fully understand the integrations and dependencies between systems and effectively facilitating decisions when conflicts arise and escalating dependency risks early with clear mitigation plans. - Lead release readiness and go/no-go decision meetings, providing risk assessments and deployment recommendations to stakeholders, ensuring stakeholder (business and IT sign-offs are obtained and documented for releases as necessary. - Monitor and report on release readiness, deployment status, incidents, and post-release outcomes. - Coordinate hypercare planning and post-release support models for business-critical deployments, partnering with product teams to ensure post release issues are analyzed, root causes identified, and corrective actions embedded into future release planning. - Ensure alignment with company standards, SOX requirements, and applicable governance frameworks. - Maintain release documentation, approvals, cutover plans, and rollback procedures. - Drive continuous improvement in release management practices.

release management

This is a Contract to Hire position based out of Arden Hills, MN.

Pay and Benefits

The pay range for this position is $60.00 - $80.00/hr.

Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to specific elections, plan, or program terms. If eligible, the benefits available for this temporary role may include the following: - Medical, dental & vision - Critical Illness, Accident, and Hospital - 401(k) Retirement Plan - Pre-tax and Roth post-tax contributions available - Life Insurance (Voluntary Life & AD&D for the employee and dependents) - Short and long-term disability - Health Spending Account (HSA) - Transportation benefits - Employee Assistance Program - Time Off/Leave (PTO, Vacation or Sick Leave)

Workplace Type

We're partners in transformation. We help clients activate ideas and solutions to take advantage of a new world of opportunity. We are a team of 80,000 strong, working with over 6,000 clients, including 80% of the Fortune 500, across North America, Europe and Asia. As an industry leader in Full-Stack Technology Services, Talent Services, and real-world application, we work with progressive leaders to drive change. That's the power of true partnership. TEKsystems is an Allegis Group company. The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regards to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law. About TEKsystems and TEKsystems Global Services We're a leading provider of business and technology services. We accelerate business transformation for our customers. Our expertise in strategy, design, execution and operations unlocks business value through a range of solutions. We're a team of 80,000 strong, working with over 6,000 customers, including 80% of the Fortune 500 across North America, Europe and Asia, who partner with us for our scale, full-stack capabilities and speed. We're strategic thinkers, hands-on collaborators, helping customers capitalize on change and master the momentum of technology. We're building tomorrow by delivering business outcomes and making positive impacts in our global communities. TEKsystems and TEKsystems Global Services are Allegis Group companies. Learn more at TEKsystems.com. The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regard to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.